Pope Francis will travel to Portugal for World Youth Day in the first week of August and include a stop at the popular Marian shrine in Fatima, the Vatican confirmed.

Pope Francis’ peace mission, which he first announced on April 30, now appears to be underway.

The Vatican said the driver was about 40 years old and was in a “serious state of psychophysical alteration."

George Weigel’s new book, 'To Sanctify the World: The Vital Legacy of Vatican II,' is a defense of the council against those who think it created a rupture with tradition (for better or for worse).

In his weekly general audience, Pope Francis uses St. Francis Xavier as an example of missionary zeal who spread the Gospel to people who had never heard it before.

Bishop Strickland wrote that he believes Pope Francis is the pope, but he "reject(s) his program of undermining the Deposit of Faith."